With fall season just around the corner, we can begin to appreciate the growth around us and give thanks for what is in front of us. Fall in Florida looks a whole lot different than fall in New England. It’s not harvest season in Florida, instead fall is a culmination of new beginnings, not the end. We can’t appreciate a full harvest at a Thanksgiving meal, if we don’t appreciate the beginnings of a new season.

What better way to get your students learning about the importance of seed-to-table education than getting a hands-on experience to cultivate their own healthy dishes? Take a field trip to Emeril Lagasse Foundation Kitchen House & Culinary Garden!

A bare table with 40 chairs is stretched down the length of the covered veranda of the Emeril Lagasse Foundation Kitchen House & Culinary Garden. Tonight it is the Mentors’ Table, a fundraising event spearheaded by Chef Jaime McFadden’s PEAS Foundation.

On March 3, Orlando Junior Academy students wrapped up their Edible Education classes for the year with some fierce competition! Grades 6-8 competed in groups against their classmates for bragging rights and a catered lunch at our Kitchen House by K Restaurant.